Those of you with Multiple Jobs

My boss owns 3 different petrol stations, 2 in the same town, Shell and BP. His daughters both work in them, and i've seen them wearing their Shell clothing while working in the BP garage and vice versa.
 
dowie said:
that is excessive would be very hard to enforce in the UK and IIRC can be worked around in the USA too by moving to a state where they're not enforced - California for example

I've got a 12 month one (UK) - a previous employee from another company in our group left, challenged it in court and won.

It is a faff though if they attempt to enforce it regardless of whether it actually stands up or not....
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The non-compete (and the entire contract) is based on a standard contract for California based software and high tech companies. Basically every company in the the Bay Area has very similar contract so it is very standard.


The thing is the non-compete is defined as similar technologies , bussiness interests and markets. It just protects the company from an employer taking all their knowledge and contacts from going to a competitor to do the same thing.


2 years seems about right to me and seems standard. My friends in Swiss start-ups who left had a 2 year non-compete. The aim of a non-compete is to allow the original company time to make significant progress and get closer to releasing the product/service.


It is not really a big deal. There are no competitors doing the same technology so there will be no jobs requiring to do the same thing. Any company that tries to get into the same market is lie,ly doomed to failure because our company has a wall of patents and IP protection as well as securing with our data providers that weare the sole recipient.
 
Westyfield2 said:
What he said. Restrictive covenants can be enforced if they are short enough and precise enough, but case law shows that most of the time the employer has written them to be too restrictive and a court would go in your favour.
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If you can afford layers to compete with the company's...

But really, non-competes make sense and are just protection for the companies investments. What you rally need to do is just talk with old employer first to check it is OK to work for the new employer on a project that is similar to what they do.
If it is really the same then it is just plain immoral even if you could win the court case. It is also risky, even if you get away with it and work for a competitor in the same domain you might end up in breach of other legal protections such as NDAs, patent infringements, IP theft. Risky for all parties involved.
 
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